Assalamualaikum and Hello

My name is Noradila Nordin and I am from the School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia. My area of expertise is in wireless sensor networks and information technology.

The topic that I have chosen is Programming Language. I have been teaching programming language for several years and I found that some of my students had difficulty understanding it. Thus, with this in mind, I wanted to ensure that learning programming can be attractive to anyone with or without disabilities as, for me, programming is fun and it is much more interesting when we can create some kind of game, for example towards the end of the learning of programming.

The type of resources that were developed is videos with closed captions, uploaded on youtube, and accessible PDF documents that represent the slides used in the videos.

The closed captions and PDF accessibility have been checked through screen reading to ensure both of those materials were developed to cater to people with hearing disabilities and visual impairment. It included alternative text where necessary. The reading order has also been checked.

From this project, I have learned that I should ensure that learning materials can be accessed by the public regardless of their ability or disability. With the accessibility within the content or materials, these are useful to cater to different types of learners, which can be for learners who prefer to watch, listen or read the closed captions to gain knowledge on the subject.

Using the content developed as the initial step, I plan to share my iOER by conducting sharing sessions using these materials as an example of creating a better iOER that caters to people.

My iOER can be accessed through ioer.noradila.com